Winding-base



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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 5. 1920.

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WINDING-Bliss.

Specification of Letters-Patent. I

I Patented Feb. 8,1921.

Application filed October 5, 1920. Serial No. 414,835.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HoMERWrNsLow, a. citizen of the United States, residing at 51 York street, Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Winding-Bases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements 1n foundations or bases for winding bobbins, cops, cones, spools, cheeses, top, roving and the like prior to bleaching, dyeing, or analogous operations.

In the well known Franklin process of bleaching and dyeing it is customary to employ a plain coiled spring of either round or flat section as the resilient foundation or base upon which the textile material 1s wound in the form of sliver, slubbing, roving, drawing or yarn, in order to allow of uniform compression and to insure uniform density throughout the packages, when superimposed upon the perforated tubesor equivalents through the agency of which the liquid or gas is forced or drawn in the bleaching,

The resilient; foundation is usually covered with a knitted or otherwise formed sleeve or tube, of textile material and in practice portions of this sleeve and the yarn wound upon it are liable to become displaced and squeezed through the interstices of the spring foundation thus resulting in waste in subsequent winding operations.

I overcome this defect by an improved construction of resilient foundation or base characterized by the use of corrugated or other wire which, when helically coiled in the usual way into a foundation or base, forms a series of interlapping or intermeshing bearing points, which break up the interstices thus giving better support to the textile material wound upon it.

And in order that my said invention may be more clearly understood and readily carried into effect I will proceed aided by the accompanying drawings more fully to describe the same.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a resilient foundation or base constructed according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan thereof.

dyeing or analogous operations.-

Fig. 3 represents a short length of wire showing the formation thereof before it is Iqoiled to form the resilient foundation or ase.

Fig. 1 represents part of Fig. 1 but showing the device partly wound with yarn or thread and with parts broken away.

in the usual way into the cylindrical spring like or resilient foundation or base 1 as illustrated at Figs. 1 and 2, the undulations 1 thereof forming a series of interlapping or intermeshing bearing points which break up the interstices between the coils of said resilient foundation for the purpose herein after explained.

The first few coils 2 at each end are formed plain as shown in Figs. 1 and 4 in order to give rigidity device while in order to prevent the yarn or the like 3 penetrating between the coils of the body 1 of the device and said plaincoils 2, the latter are soldered, welded or otherwise fixed to the first coil of corrugated wire 1. 7

In Fig. 4 is illustrated part of a foundation constructed according to the present invention partly wound with yarn 3.

The device is first covered with a knitted or otherwise formed sleeve or tube 4 of textile material in the usual way after which the yarn 3 is wound thereon as shown and by reasonof the corrugated or undulating form of the wire of which the foundation 1 is formed the tube or sleeve 4 is adequately supported at the interstices between the coils of the foundation and prevented from sagging thereinto.

It will be. understood that the wire of which the device is formed may be round, flat, or any other suitable section and that the form of the corrugations or undulations may be varied in any desired manner. It will also be understood that although it is preferable to employ several plain coils such as 2 at the ends of the device, said plain coils may be dispensed with or subto the ends of they stituted by any suitable equivalent or equivalents.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 5 1. A Winding base, comprising a helical member having a plurality of undulating coils. v

2. A winding base, comprising a resilient helical member formed of undulating coils- 10 and having at each end a plain coil.

3. A winding base, comprising a resilient helical member having a series of coils of undulating formation, the undulations of one coil coinciding with the undulations of the remaining coils, and a plain coil at each 15 end thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

-- HOMER WINSLOW.

. Witnesses:

A C. H. WHITE,

HERBERT ROWLAND ABBE 

